17
Jan
2024
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Extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, you want Big Brother, you want to set up a series of crimes of opinion to control ideas and limit freedom of expression, you want to appropriate the competences of the Member States to counter positions that you do not like with new rules. Let us be clear, we are in favour of combating the various forms of discrimination and hate crime, and in particular it is right for us to combat bullying in schools and cyberbullying, which are particularly serious phenomena that put children at risk. We would not want, however, under the pretext of preventing crimes, to remove from the web and social networks, for example, news and opinions that are unwelcome to a certain political party. On the other hand, already with the Digital Services Act you have made it clear that, if you are a rebellious voice and not aligned with the unique thought of the left, you can and must be silenced and that you want to be promoters of a model in which the contents of citizens' thoughts are deleted under the pretext of the fight against fake news. I wonder: Who will evaluate what speech can be equated with hate? What will be the topics on which you will no longer be able to express a voice outside the choir? In short, we are afraid of a new gag, with Brussels ready to want to import the Chinese model into Europe too.